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In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
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Anatole France
#Democracy
#Sacred
#Wealth
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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
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Anatole France
#Love
#Inspiring
#Sibling
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
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Anatole France
#Art
#Atheist
#Stupid
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Anatole France
#Inspirational
#Life
#Motivational
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Anatole France
#Love
#Life
#Art
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Anatole France
#Inspirational
#Inspiring
#Nature
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If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Anatole France
#Wisdom
#Stupid
#People
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Anatole France
#Beautiful
#Nature
#Journey
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It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
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Anatole France
#Wisdom
#Reality
#Littles
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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
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Anatole France
#Love
#Relationship
#Faith
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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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Anatole France
#Life
#Men
#Average
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Anatole France
#Wisdom
#Math
#Men
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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Anatole France
#Life
#Change
#Spirituality
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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Anatole France
#Peace
#Sleep
#Equality
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Anatole France
#Wise
#Goes On
#Walks
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It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
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Anatole France
#Heart
#Knowledge
#Mind
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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
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Anatole France
#Life
#Happiness
#Happy
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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
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Anatole France
#Fate
#Literature
#Poverty
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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
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Anatole France
#Life
#Beautiful
#Business
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Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.
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Anatole France
#Teaching
#Fire
#Vanity
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The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
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Anatole France
#Men
#Heartache
#Curiosity
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Anatole France
#Book
#Reading
#Writing
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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Anatole France
#Girl
#Regret
#Past
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It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.
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Anatole France
#Sex
#Pretty Woman
#Easy
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Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned
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Anatole France
#Mean
#Justice
#Injustice
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I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.
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Anatole France
#Essence
#Imperfection
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Anatole France
#Order
#Dictionary
#Alphabetical Order
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We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Anatole France
#Book
#Devil
#Stories
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Anatole France
#Inspirational
#Book
#Beer
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A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.
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Anatole France
#Military
#War
#Patriotic
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Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Anatole France
#Inspirational
#Education
#Teacher
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Anatole France
#Work
#Men
#Labor Day
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Anatole France
#Time
#Deals
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Anatole France
#Evil
#Stupidity
#Doe
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Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
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Anatole France
#Change
#Regret
#Life Changing
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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Anatole France
#People
#Weakness
#Way
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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
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Anatole France
#Writing
#Sound
#World
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You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
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Anatole France
#Writing
#Editing
#Sentences
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
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Anatole France
#Education
#Memories
#Learning
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If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.
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Anatole France
#Deeds
#Guilty
#Cruelty
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Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
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Anatole France
#Love
#Fear
#Religion
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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
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Anatole France
#Inspirational
#Acceptance
#Risk
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Anatole France
#Fashion
#Thinking
#Literature
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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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Anatole France
#Life
#Sweet
#Literature
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Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
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Anatole France
#Nature
#Evil
#Principles
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Anatole France
#Motivational
#Life Changing
#Crazy
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Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
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Anatole France
#Fashion
#Women
#Clothes
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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Anatole France
#Inspirational
#Thank You
#Teacher
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Anatole France
#Positive
#Encouraging
#Education
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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Anatole France
#Literature
#Innocence
#Virtue
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Anatole France
#Happiness
#Ignorance
#Inner Peace
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When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.
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Anatole France
#Lying
#Book
#History
